kin (kenny bee) is fireman who has just been fired (no pun intended) after he thought he saw a young woman in a burning building and ran in to save her. the young woman was, in fact, the ghost on ling (dodo cheng), an actress who died in a fire many years ago, whose ghost was stirred when her spirit tablet almost burned in the fire. jobless, with ling in tow, kin moves into his brother ma's (wu ma) apartment, but soon finds that an evil spirit, piu hung (lai yin-saan), is after him and isn't quite as friendly as ling...

now, a lot of people seem to kinda dislike this film, but i shall credit the fact that i haven't been swamped with 'a chinese ghost story' clones, or even watched the original for many years, with my liking of it. yep, i'd even go as far as saying that i really enjoyed it.

bee, though unspectacular, is amiable enough, but it is dodo cheng who carries this film on her shoulders, as she often does. she's funny when she needs to be, never struggles with the drama and even looks good when she's fighting with lai yin-saan. wu ma amuses, as the (much) older brother and the aforementioned lai, is suitably vampish.

enjoyable fun...